Brain Circuits Split Food Choices Between Sugar and Fat Cravings
Summary: A new study reveals that the brain uses two distinct neural pathways to regulate sugar and fat intake. In ...
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Just 3 Days of Fatty Food May Damage Aging Brains, Study Warn
A new study in rats suggests that even a few days on a high-fat diet can lead to memory impairments ...
Confined Spaces Change How We Smell and Experience Food
Summary: Researchers found that confined environments, like the International Space Station, alter the way people perceive food aromas, with emotions ...
Researchers uncover fascinating connection between colorblindness and food preferences
The seventh season of Julia Child’s “The French Chef,” the first of the television series to air in color, revealed ...
How Previous Food Choices Influence Future Decisions
Summary: Research shows that when rating food for appeal or calorie content, judgments are influenced by the food choices we’ve ...
Poor students perform worse on math questions about money and food, study shows
A recent large-scale study involving over 5 million students from 58 countries examined whether the content of math test questions ...
Junk Food Fuels Anxiety – Neuroscience News
Summary: A high-fat diet can disrupt gut bacteria, alter behavior, and influence brain chemicals in ways that increase anxiety. The ...
How a Nutritional Psychiatrist Quells Anxiety with Food
How a Nutritional Psychiatrist Quells Anxiety with FoodWritten by: Uma Naidoo, MD | Published on: December 28, 2023 Supported by ...
Obesity Alters Brain’s Response to Food Cues
Summary: New research using molecular imaging with 18F-flubatine PET/MRI shows a distinct response to food cues in the brains of ...
Stressed Brains Amplify Comfort Food Cravings
Summary: Researchers uncovered how chronic stress in combination with high-calorie diets can amplify our brain’s reward system, driving overeating and ...